[A15X]

Personal phone is EE and work phone is voda, we moved homes 18 months ago (around 1 mile away) and god EE is shocking at our new house have to use WiFi call which is as useless as the cell network. Voda on the other hand never had a call drop or anything at home and out and about (I travel allot for work around the south east London etc) all service seems good. We are due upgrades over the next month so will keep a close eye on how my work phone is and make a decision on whether to leave EE or not!

[SkyJawa]

Originally Posted by A15X

Personal phone is EE and work phone is voda, we moved homes 18 months ago (around 1 mile away) and god EE is shocking at our new house have to use WiFi call which is as useless as the cell network. Voda on the other hand never had a call drop or anything at home and out and about (I travel allot for work around the south east London etc) all service seems good. We are due upgrades over the next month so will keep a close eye on how my work phone is and make a decision on whether to leave EE or not!

I was the same which is why I went Voda.

EE claim we get good 3G in and out at our address, I can barely get a bar of 2g and can’t make calls. I escalated and even spoke to a specialist engineer that blamed our house being square in between 2 transmitters in a specific orientation. Complete load of bollocks because it was no better outside. In the end I gave up, life is too short to get wound up over pathetic service so took my custom to Vodafone where I get full 4g and data speeds that were better than our infinity broadband.

[MashinBenzin]

Originally Posted by SkyJawa

I was the same which is why I went Voda.

EE claim we get good 3G in and out at our address, I can barely get a bar of 2g and can't make calls. I escalated and even spoke to a specialist engineer that blamed our house being square in between 2 transmitters in a specific orientation. Complete load of bollocks because it was no better outside. In the end I gave up, life is too short to get wound up over pathetic service so took my custom to Vodafone where I get full 4g and data speeds that were better than our infinity broadband.

Same boat here. Twenty years with Vodafone, have had work phones in parallel over the last fifteen years, varying between Vodafone, EE and O2. In the four houses I've lived in and in general use I have always found Vodafone the best. EE in particular during 2015-7 was verging on unusable- work switched us back to Vodafone. Fully get that other locations could see the inverse though.

Now that I have that off my chest - what on earth is visual voicemail?

[JustChris]

Originally Posted by MashinBenzin

Now that I have that off my chest - what on earth is visual voicemail?

Wants a big icon popping up on his dash mounted new iPhone XS.

Not distracting

[teaston]

Originally Posted by MashinBenzin

Same boat here. Twenty years with Vodafone, have had work phones in parallel over the last fifteen years, varying between Vodafone, EE and O2. In the four houses I've lived in and in general use I have always found Vodafone the best. EE in particular during 2015-7 was verging on unusable- work switched us back to Vodafone. Fully get that other locations could see the inverse though.

Now that I have that off my chest - what on earth is visual voicemail?

Much easier way of listening to voicemails and seeing their number & when they called, and being able to rewind and fast forward them etc:

[teaston]

You can even send or save the voicemail as an m4a sound file:

[teaston]

Just to update this thread, I decided the loss of visual voicemail was not an option, and I got an incredible deal through a friend so i’m stay with EE and getting an iPhone Xs delivered tomorrow hopefully!

[Hoyboy]

There’s an app called “HulloMail” which is exactly the same as visual voicemail but it also does transcripts of the voicemail i.e. you can read what they have said as well as listen to them.

There’s a small monthly fee involved to use it but it offers more features over the basic visual voicemail you get with EE so it’s worth it. You can also offset the costs as business expenses if you so wish.

I’ve been using it for a month now and think it’s really good. FYI I’m on Vodafone.

Just to be clear you receive calls like normal and if a call goes to voicemail it gets forwarded to the app. It basically replaces the voicemail you get with your network provider.

[teaston]

Originally Posted by Hoyboy

There’s an app called “HulloMail” which is exactly the same as visual voicemail but it also does transcripts of the voicemail i.e. you can read what they have said as well as listen to them.

There’s a small monthly fee involved to use it but it offers more features over the basic visual voicemail you get with EE so it’s worth it. You can also offset the costs as business expenses if you so wish.

I’ve been using it for a month now and think it’s really good. FYI I’m on Vodafone.

Just to be clear you receive calls like normal and if a call goes to voicemail it gets forwarded to the app. It basically replaces the voicemail you get with your network provider.

Too late mate!

[Hoyboy]

Originally Posted by teaston

Too late mate!

No worries mate. Might come in handy next time.

[Bibbles]

Originally Posted by Hoyboy

There’s an app called “HulloMail” which is exactly the same as visual voicemail but it also does transcripts of the voicemail i.e. you can read what they have said as well as listen to them.

There’s a small monthly fee involved to use it but it offers more features over the basic visual voicemail you get with EE so it’s worth it. You can also offset the costs as business expenses if you so wish.

I’ve been using it for a month now and think it’s really good. FYI I’m on Vodafone.

Just to be clear you receive calls like normal and if a call goes to voicemail it gets forwarded to the app. It basically replaces the voicemail you get with your network provider.

Cheers, just downloaded that and it seems very good.

[MarkG_M5Comp]

I know the ship has sailed but just to add a remark on call quality:

As a Three (personal) and BT Mobile (work) user for many years I didn't realise there was a difference. Now I've switch to VF in my 'new' job, the comparative call quality is shockingly bad!

Obviously Three is a data only network (3G/4G) but calls on Vodafone are like using an old analogue lans line in comparison - I hate it, voices are really unclear.

[teaston]

Originally Posted by MarkG_M3CP

I know the ship has sailed but just to add a remark on call quality:

As a Three (personal) and BT Mobile (work) user for many years I didn't realise there was a difference. Now I've switch to VF in my 'new' job, the comparative call quality is shockingly bad!

Obviously Three is a data only network (3G/4G) but calls on Vodafone are like using an old analogue lans line in comparison - I hate it, voices are really unclear.

ok thanks, looks like i dodged a bullet!